Comments on: Six weeks later, still no $150 laptop

My Medison Celebrity laptop has failed to materialize six weeks after placing an order.

[peter.mortensen]

Yeah, too many orders...great excuse!

The CEO of Medison bragged about having 300,000 orders a couple of months ago before 2Checkout later announced that the actual number was only 7,000. Still not a single laptop is delivered to anybody.

You have the freedom to believe in this as much as you want but if you have a bit insight into mass production quantity component costs, assembly costs, logistical costs, R&D costs, after sales service costs etc. you will know that this whole Medison story is nothing more than the biggest online scam of the year.

And it's not even done very professionally. Why is it so hard to understand this is a scam? Is it because C-NET and other journalists don't filter information and leave their readers with the image that it has a chance? Or is it because a company 2Checkout also don't see the reality?

[GeekBoy]

Too many orders?

If there are too many orders, then why has nobody have yet to receive a laptop and 2checkout.com cancelled their account?

[back_water_tech]

What a strange company

Hmmmm, If this isn't a scam, I would be very cautious with doing business with folks in Sweeden.

Strange way of doing business.

However, it is actually possible to get a laptop down to $150, but Medison would have had to order so many lcd's and cases that they wouldn't be on the "We had too many responses" bs line.

People keep referencing the big guys and thier inability to get thier basic laptops under $400. Remember, no matter what, a laptop motherboard, case and lcd cost less than $80. This is for a low-mid grade laptop with 2 year old technology (like anything under $400 would be state of the art or anything) if ordered in lots of 10,000 or more. Most laptop manufacturers don't actually make thier own laptops, but rather they assemble them.

Think about it. This outfit is most likely a scam. I seriously doubt that this "education" consulting company could have pulled this off.
But this situation does show the big laptop manufacturers that there is a sub $400 market and we want new (not state of the art) laptops, not three year old beatup ones from eBay. :p :D

[mishani]

Source of data?

Can you say where you found the price data that put the MB, case and a (14") LCD under $80? Do not forget the HD, DVDR, memory, WiFi plus overhead, distrbition, customer support. Would $150 price (which is more than the cost of bare components) still be feasible?

[desertsurfergirl]

medison celebrity

Lots and lots of whining. Hey scam or no nobody is out any money at this point. This has generated lots of discussion some of which is good, maybe the big manufacturers will listen who knows. Then again maybe someone will actually get one of these laptops.

Not all companies are business savvy even though they think they are, and the may have ligitimate problems. As long as it doesn't cost anything who cares lol

[peter.mortensen]

The Medison fiasco...

Medison broke all rules of good business ethics and the press ignored all signs of common sense.

Medison absolutely never had the product they claimed and the list of lies goes on and on. Quite a few got fooled obviously (just read below in this blog).

Yes, the CEO might have had some ideas but there is a tremendous difference between that and a real product to ship.